# With Love from London Dispatches from the desk of historical novelist, mystery writer, and expat Julia Kelly Page: Feed: --- ## [Another Exclusive Look at The Queen of Roses](https://juliakellywrites.substack.com/p/another-exclusive-look-at-the-queen) _2026-08-18_ An exclusive excerpt ## [The Women Who Defended Britain’s Skies](https://juliakellywrites.substack.com/p/the-women-who-defended-britains-skies) _2026-08-14 · Julia Kelly_ Meet the Ack Ack Girls ## [Complicated Families](https://juliakellywrites.substack.com/p/complicated-families) _2026-08-07 · Julia Kelly_ I don’t know what it is, but I love reading about complicated families—all the more so if there’s a disputed inheritance thrown into the mix of all of the already-established drama. ## [The Typewriter: Part 2](https://juliakellywrites.substack.com/p/the-typewriter-part-2) _2026-07-31_ As I prepared for maternity leave, I came across a self-contained chapter of my book The Whispers of War that I had removed from the manuscript because it no longer it. ## [The Typewriter: Part 1](https://juliakellywrites.substack.com/p/the-typewriter-part-1) _2026-07-24_ As I prepared for maternity leave, I came across a self-contained chapter of my book The Whispers of War that I had removed from the manuscript because it no longer it. ## [Your First Read of The Queen of Roses](https://juliakellywrites.substack.com/p/your-first-read-of-the-queen-of-roses) _2026-07-21 · Julia Kelly_ An exclusive excerpt ## [Coming Soon: The Typewriter](https://juliakellywrites.substack.com/p/coming-soon-the-typewriter) _2026-07-20 · Julia Kelly_ If you’ve been reading along with my Substack while I’ve been on maternity leave, you know that one of the things I’ve been doing is revisiting some pieces from my personal archives. ## [The Story Behind the Book: The Lost English Girl](https://juliakellywrites.substack.com/p/the-story-behind-the-book-the-lost) _2026-07-17 · Julia Kelly_ Every book is different. ## [How Women Did Their Bit in World War 2 Britain](https://juliakellywrites.substack.com/p/how-women-did-their-bit-in-world) _2026-07-10 · Julia Kelly_ One of the things that has always drawn me to write historical novels is the incredible wealth of stories waiting for curious readers to discover. ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/toAI1R64aP91) _2026-07-10 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [Dual Timelines to Get Lost In](https://juliakellywrites.substack.com/p/dual-timelines-to-get-lost-in) _2026-07-03 · Julia Kelly_ When you love something, you can sometimes be even more critical of it than the average person.